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title: Combinations like _th_ and _dh_ should be pronounced as in _hothouse… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Combinations like _th_ and _dh_ should be pronounced as in _hothouse_ and _madhouse_. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 39

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Combinations like \_th\_ and \_dh\_ should be pronounced as in \_hothouse\_ and \_madhouse\_.

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**What happens:** pronounce · **To what, where:** Combinations

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74064:1:44
# text = Combinations like _th_ and _dh_ should be pronounced as in _hothouse_ and _madhouse_.
1	Combinations	combination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	th	that	ADP	IN	_	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	dh	dh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	hothouse	hothouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	madhouse	madhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pronounce** | should · passive |  |  |  |  |  | as hothouse | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP» |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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